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Macs Versus PCs
Cartoon Professor
4 posts
May 04, 2009
6:05 AM
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Gday.
Almost everyone accessing this site is a digital artist of some sort or another.
I am curious as to who uses what to produce their work with.
Personally, I use a 3yr old G5 Mac Quad processor running Tiger.
It keeps up with very demanding PS and 3D work quite well. Occasionally I use my 17" Macbook pro but I find it a bit slow processing 3D work in particular (the program I use, Carrara 5 was designed for PowerPC, not Intel).
What do you use?
Microsucks?
Linux?
Kind Regards,
CP
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KarenSC
Guest
May 04, 2009
4:27 PM
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I have used PCs since 1989 when it was a colour monitor with PC versus a Mac with a mono tiny monitor. I wanted colour! And the price was more affordable at the time. I know both Mac and PCs well and have also taught both, but my personal choice has stayed with PC. I currently have a super PC - 64bit Dell Precision T5400 with 8G ram, Vista Ultimate and the Adobe CS4 suite of programs including Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Dreamweaver and more. And a 24inch HPw2408h HDMI monitor. I design more for print than web. I use the Intuos Wacom 4 (bought from CP) Large size and have used other Wacom pens for years.
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Norm
Guest
May 08, 2009
3:00 AM
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I have never used a Mac but I am told they are very good for graphics. My very first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 (now this may give my age away) which was used with a portable b&w tv and a cassete tape recorder. I think it cost in the region of £25 from WH Smith newsagents in UK in about 1976/78.I bought it because I was afraid that if my children couldn't get into the school computer club they would grow up to be computer illiterate, as it happened I was the one who used it the most. These days I have an HP laptop which is nearing its last legs. I was using it to animate my personal family charicatures in a free software program called PENCIL by trying to draw with the mouse. My work is all very amaturish but since getting this intuos4 for my 60th B/day (which is actually today but being like a big kid I couldn't wait to use it once my wife bought it) I feel like a bit of a pro as it has opened up a whole new range of possibilities for me. The bottom line is I can't say which is better I just have great fun with my PC anyway.
Norm.
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